Learning Curve Time

 Hello everyone! I finally have my new laptop, it is a bit smaller than the old one, the keyboard is slightly set up a bit differently but at least I can talk to all of you again without making numerous spelling errors.

Kris has the recovery going on the old laptop and both of us are hopeful that he will be able to transfer things over to this new one. 

I have lots of apps to try and get running on this machine. Mainly banking, my HomeScan app, and a couple of others that I use a great deal. 

Kris is going to set me up on the "cloud" so hopefully this mess will not happen again. 

We are staying here an extra day so that Harvey and Kris can bond watching their beloved Saskatchewan Roughriders play tomorrow. That is kind of what I hoped would happen. I will do some cleaning around Kris's home as a repayment for all his work in trying to get me up and running once again. 

Back to normal (hopefully) posts soon.

Everybody have a wonderful evening. 

God bless.

Month End

It is so hard to believe that summer is almost over. The fact is we are just starting to get summer-like weather. Today we reached a temperature of 32 C but it felt like 37 C outside. This is more what we are used to in the month of July.

The monthly budget was entered and even with the buying of the laptop we are still under budget for the month. I am especially happy that we were under budget for groceries. However, a stock up is in order during August (don't know when I will be having surgery...still, and I have no idea how long recovery will be, I want to be prepared for any and all eventualities). This usually means a very high grocery spend for the month.

While I did get all the extra cleaning done, I am afraid there are lots of little things left on my goal list. I moved them to the upcoming month, and only added a couple of small items. Small items added are mostly those Christmas projects that I want done and dusted well before that holiday arrives. There is one big project that will have to wait until I manage to get the supplies (during the stock up trip).

I managed to knit up all that leftover fingering weight yarn into 4" squares. Those will be sewn together in the evenings once I get some Christmas knitting done. Still not too sure what they will become though.

Decluttering is moving right along. As of today 333 items are no longer in the house. I am hoping to reach 500 again this year. Each year it seems to get a bit harder to part with things, but I will get it done. Downsizing and simplifying are my mantra for the next few years (probably much longer).

Harvesting of the garden is slow. I have been harvesting herbs and dehydrating them. This will be ongoing until the herbs no longer seem to be growing. We have also eaten onions, kale and the occasional strawberry that the birds have missed in their gluttony (wouldn't mind so much if they didn't peck a bit and leave). Harvey ate a few of the cherries off our new trees before the birds got all of them. Think some netting might work next year while the trees are still fairly small.

Kurt and Kris were home and it was wonderful having some time with the two of them. We get to see Kris quite often as he is only a couple of hours away and we do our stock up shop in that city. Kurt on the other hand lives 9 hours away so our visits are few and far between. The next time we will be lucky enough to have the two of them home at the same time will be Thanksgiving. Only a few months away, but still will miss having them around before then.


Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Saturday Update

Slowly but surely the projects I decided to work on this month are being completed. Some will take longer than this month, some I will not even begin to tackle (seems like my intentions are good, but my time is limited).

So far this month I have been working on projects for the school. Not quite done the second set of projects for them, but getting very close.

Since Kris was home last weekend he went home with his TV dinners I make so I have started to get a few more of those ready for the next time he is home.

The tinfoil container is Kris's stew meal. The rather large plastic butter container is for Harvey and I at a later date. You see I try to cook rather large basic meals and then have some to package up and freeze. These are used at a time when I am busy or too tired to cook. We get a homemade meal, and the expense of ordering out is avoided.

I have been knitting with some variegated yarn from another project.

The three small balls I had would not knit a sweater, or vest so I decided to knit it up into a lovely infinity scarf. I hope to be finished this by the end of the month. Then I will pull out my rug project and continue working on that. Still using up small balls of yarn in other words.

Most of you know that I have been scanning pictures and then burning them onto DVD's. I have managed to finish all the children's pictures and will be starting those old pictures of Harvey and I next. Things are moving along, but it is going to be a project that goes on and on.

I am cross stitching when I have time and will show you all the dragon when it is done. I told Kris I was thinking it would make a lovely pillow as he really does not need anything on his walls (according to him).

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Life Back To Normal.....Sort Of

The last few weeks have gone by in a flash. Due to computer problems, I was unable to post any pictures and I don't know about the rest of you, but a post without pictures or images is missing a great deal.

Kris worked on my computer on the weekend and I am back in business. I am beginning to think that the computers we buy get a mind of their own. The first one we had years ago seemed to last so much longer and caused me a lot fewer heart aches.

Any way here I am once again.

I finished the baby afghan while the computer was being crabby. This one I did in yellow and white. Turned out not too badly (if I do say so myself). I will be parceling it up tonight to go out in the mail tomorrow.

I also got to help Harvey put the window into the hole in the wall in the basement room. I am sooo very happy that this job was completed before the weather got too bad and we had to contend with a foot or two of snow as well. Here is what the room looks like now.

Now he is busy with the wiring for the extra plug in I wanted and the baseboard heater. Hopefully those will be done quickly and we can finish dry walling the rest of the room and fixing the dry wall that is already up. Harvey dislikes this part of the job intensely, but if we want the room finished by Christmas it needs to be done. I have picked out new paint colours and the material for the curtains. We both need to pick out new floor coverings however.

I received my second blogging gift from Brenda.

Some lovely wax melts, they infuse the room with the smell of maple sugar, one of my favorite things. A lovely stuffed pumpkin, which matches my decor perfectly, an embroidered linen dish towel, perfectly gorgeous note paper (which is something I never buy for myself) and a pound cake, which Harvey started to nibble on right after I took this photo.

I have her third of four parcels almost ready to go and I hope to have it in the mail by Friday. This has been so very much fun.

Well I guess I had better go and visit everybody.

Everybody have a wonderful evening. God bless.